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Painkiller Demo due out today

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Nice lighting , smoke effects, motion blur and physics ...looks real good....... allthough a better than average system is required...
 
downloading now w/ my gamespot membership 🙂 no DLX here, although it isn't bad (distributed P2P network a la bit torrent is a good idea, whether or not people like it)
 
Wow pretty sweet game so far. The graphics are excellent and I love the blood splats hehe, the physics seem to be perfect ? best I?ve seen in a game. Gotta love what those creatures are tossing at you and the way you can stake them to the wall 😀

The sound and music is so so and it needs a little more mood like when those creatures start popping out of the barrels. That gave me a little scare at first. If this game comes out before Doom3 I?ll be buying it!
 
oh my I like it ALOT 😀
reminds me of Hexen, just running around killing spawns of evil

now this game MUST have coop!! anyone know for sure?
 
two things though

the stake gun is soooo much fun!!! needs to be a bit more powerful because the guys near the end are too powerful for it to be realy useful

the weapon number 1 secondary fire, that one is just way too powerful, if you know how to dodge your enemies or can find a safe spot then you just have to fire it and let the gun do the trick while the enemies come after you

the first level I used the stake gun the most
second and all to the last level I used the secondary fire for gun number one the most
last level I used whatever that thing I started with
 
Originally posted by: LordJezo
Any way to save the game? Having to replay the level every time I die is a bit stupid.
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Nope, but you can change the levels from the pentagram interface before you hit the button to play when first starting.
 
Originally posted by: Czar
oh my I like it ALOT 😀
reminds me of Hexen, just running around killing spawns of evil

now this game MUST have coop!! anyone know for sure?
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You are right, this would be a kickarse multiplayer coop game I hope that include it in the final version.
 
Can someone with extra pipe host it?, I would rather not D/L from Gamespot and I don't do the torrent thing. (my arn't I high matainence)

How big is the demo?
 
Originally posted by: ChurchOfSubgenius
Can someone with extra pipe host it?, I would rather not D/L from Gamespot and I don't do the torrent thing. (my arn't I high matainence)

How big is the demo?
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Get it from fileshack.com then.. its 200 something megs i think.
 
Damn Fileshack, says that basically nobody is downloading it (7% load) but it won't let me either.

Bad user name or password when I pick a server to download from (but how the hell did I log in then?)
 
Originally posted by: paperfist
Wow pretty sweet game so far. The graphics are excellent and I love the blood splats hehe, the physics seem to be perfect ? best I?ve seen in a game. Gotta love what those creatures are tossing at you and the way you can stake them to the wall 😀
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It uses the same physics engine that Valve is licensing for HL2. Havok.
 
Wow what a game this is. JUst played the whole demo and i loved it all. GOod music suiting the mood, nice levels and excellent graphics. Loved the gameplay and it wasnt jerky at all. Great explosions and the last level was fun. Id recommend this game to any fps gamer..definately a must have.
 
OK, I got it last night and played it this morning (late for work again 😛) HOLY CRAP, this game has a scary ass atmosphere, it reminds me a lot of Return to Castle Wolfenstien. Whoa, those flying mofo's scared the crap out of me the first time I saw one.
I wish it had a little more color (all grey/dark blue/brown) but I understand that it's not supposed to be Mario Bros.
 
Why does everyone find this game scary? I was playing Silent Hill 3 for a few hours last night and went right into Painkiller to try it out when I couldn't take any more of SH3. Painkiller actually got me in a much happier mood then I was in before hand and made me smile and enjoy life again. Silent Hill, on the other hand, got me really depressed and creeped out at everything.
 
yea, i didnt really find it scary at all. the weapons are entertaining...different from the usual. visuals are pretty sweet, and getting to play around with the havok physics engine before hl2 comes out is fun. other than that, i'd say it was just a decent FPS...not great. maybe the full game with story will make up for it.
 
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